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Testing the KDE 4.2 Release Candidate, On Windows
Verunks writes "Ars takes the KDE 4.2 release candidate out for a test drive on Windows. The popular open source desktop environment has moved beyond Linux and is becoming increasingly robust on other platforms. Even KDE's Plasma desktop shell is now Windows-compatible."
Yes! You can hit Alt+F4, shutdown, reboot in a Unix-like OS, then hit F4 again. Easy as pie.
None of my windows machines have had a BSoD in years!
I want my money back.
Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
I think it's that thing you have to do when something gets updated.
Web server...no that's not it.
Desktop environment... no.
Oh - X11! Wait, no.
Uuuuh. Why do we reboot?
Oh yeah, installing new hardware! Sometimes you have to power down for that!
Oh, and every year when I update my kernel, whether I need to or not.
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It doesn't count if you never turn them on anymore...
Please post a link to the bug report that you filed so that I can help triage it. Thanks.
No. If your desktop environment wasn't tested on HIS computer under HIS operating system with HIS libraries, you failed. I mean, you could've stopped by his apartment all last week! He was available then! You have no excuse for this complete laziness.
(laugh, it's funny!)
Next step for EU to dictate MS to stop integrating Windowing interface with the OS and provide a way for users to choose which Windowing they are going to use. WOW. This is going to be great.
two are on all the time. Two more are on frequently.
Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
UNIX - why reboot more often than you have sex?
Linus, is it you?
KDE 4.2.0 is out today, and isn't a trainwreck. There are a few annoyances left, but most of them should be gone by 4.2.2. But then again, 4.2.0 wouldn't be four-two-o if it wasn't a bit four twenty.
Isn't that a little bit like testing out a corvette in a driveway?
The darn thing won't even turn on?
Its similar to the restart process you do when you install a new kernel.
My wife is like Windows
The main reason I usually have for rebooting is moving house. The car journey lasts longer than the UPS.
Phillip.
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This is an element of what is also sometimes known as "percussive maintenance". When you have a computer that refuses to work correctly, often the first thing one does is to kick it angrily. If even after going through the usual support voodoo it still doesn't work, you "re-boot" (i.e. "kick it again") it.
On unreliable platforms, this may be the preferred way of dealing with problems.
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Konsole is not yet ported. Which makes me very sad since I switched to Windows 7 until KDE 4 stops being the trainwreck that it is, [ ... ]
This has to be one of the most bizarre comments I've ever read in here (and that's quite something).
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